Bright Young Things -- Review by Hope Austin

Bright Young Things
by Anna Godbersen
***stars

The year is 1929 and best friends Cordelia Grey and Letty Larkspur are fed up with their repressed Ohio lifestyle. On the day of Cordelia's sort-of shotgun wedding, the girls abandon their hum-drum town and get one-way tickets to New York City. Once there, the two go out and try to follow their dreams: Letty wants to be an actress on Broadway, and Cordelia wants to find the man she believes is her father, who is conveniently a very wealthy bootlegger. Not long after they get there, the girls have a falling out and go their own ways. Letty gets what seems like her big break and Cordelia is taken under the wing of a socialite. The girls learn that not everything is quite what it seems.

There were a lot of times when I found this book a chore to read, especially with regards to the romance. I felt like there was no point to a lot of it. Although, this book is the first in a series, so maybe it'll all come together. Overall, it was pretty unremarkable. That said, I'll probably be reading this series to the bitter end because I just want see how it ends.